The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized

There’s no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.